#east side

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#became #chef #cooks #drink #east

I love the Lower East Side. ↗

— David Duchovny

#east side #i #i love #love #lower

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#being #culture #east #east side #given

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#america #animal #boy #charley #columbus

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#another #book #east #east side #first

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#american #east #east side #grew #i

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#brought #crutches #death #east #east side

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#east #east side #else #groups #had

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#adopted #city #east #east side #eight

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. ↗

— Laura Linney

#east side #grew #i #manhattan #side